00:00If two people are in love, does that love contribute to GDP? It does not. So why
00:07should love be valued? If animals are feeling good, does that contribute to
00:13GDP? It does not. So why should animals be cared for? That does not contribute to
00:19GDP. If a person has self-knowledge and is sitting still, does that contribute to
00:24GDP? That does not. But if you hack down a jungle and instead start mining there, that
00:31contributes to GDP. Development for us is something very material. We think we need
00:37development of the kind where we have more and more material in affluence. This
00:42flawed concept of you see who we are and what we need is at the center of all our
00:50problems. The question is, is that what the individual really needs?
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